How Your Commitment Supports Student-Athletes and Beaver Athletics

Supporting Oregon State Athletics goes beyond game day. Through philanthropic support, your generosity helps sustain competitive excellence while supporting the academic, personal, and long-term success of Oregon State student-athletes.

This page explains how contributions are recognized, how giving is applied, and how your investment in our student-athletes helps strengthen Beaver Athletics today and for the future, while providing Beaver Points for recognition of your dedication and commitment.

Beaver Points vs. Total Investment

Beaver Points and Total Investment are two ways Oregon State Athletics recognizes donor contributions. The two systems are a result of the 2018 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. Each serves a distinct purpose and helps ensure fairness, transparency, and consistency across ticketing and giving opportunities.

Beaver Points

Beaver Points reflect qualifying contributions that directly support Oregon State Athletics and are used to determine priority for ticket placement at home athletic events.

Beaver Points are used for:

• Ticket placement for home games
• Priority access to season tickets
• Seating opportunities for home events
  

Beaver Point Calculations

How Beaver Points are earned and applied across different types of giving and engagement.

Total Investment

Total Investment reflects the full scope of a donor’s financial commitment to Oregon State Athletics and the university.

Total Investment is used for:

• Ticket placement for away games
• On-campus parking for home contests
• Parking allocation adjustments

Total Investment Calculations

A comprehensive view of how overall contributions and ticket-related investments are recognized.

How to Increase Beaver Points and Total Investment

There are several ways to grow both your impact and your recognition through continued support of Oregon State Athletics.

Ways to increase your Beaver Points and Total Investment include:

• Increasing contributions to the OSU Athletics Fund for Excellence, FEARLESS: Women of Oregon State Athletics Fund, and the Athletics Priority Access Fund.
• Purchasing additional season tickets that include seat contributions
• Making a gift to a capital project, sport-specific initiative, or endowment

Ways to grow both your impact and recognition

Priority Point Options

Gifts to the Athletics Seating and Parking Fund that provide access to season ticket locations are not tax-deductible per the 2018 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. For this reason, all season ticket contributions default to accepting Beaver Points.

Philanthropic Donations

Philanthropic donations are gifts not tied to the purchase of season tickets or parking, and directly support student-athletes and athletic programs. Examples include:

Beaver Points are used for:

• Annual donations
• Capital gifts
• Endowment gifts
• Sport-specific donations

Tax deductibility and Beaver Point eligibility vary by gift type. All guidelines remain unchanged.

*If Beaver Points are declined when making the gift.